Improvement in tobacco-pails



A. A'LFOR'D. Tobacco- Pail.

No. 198,178; Patented Dec 18, 1877.

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N, PETERS. FNOTO-UTHOGRAPMER. WASHINGTON, D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ALBERT ALFORD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-PAI LS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,178, dated December18, 1877; application filed September 1, 1877.

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT ALFORD, of

Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of sale, which invention isfully described and set forth herein, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of apackage embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a vertical section thereoffrom front to rear; Fig. 3, a sectional view of a part of one side andof the lid; and Fig. 4, a section indicating the construction,arrangement, and mode of applying and operating the bolt or fastening.

In the drawing, Arepresents a wooden package, having the form of aninverted frustum of a four-sided pyramid. The meeting-edges of the sidesare joined by means of tenons on one edge, lying in correspondingcross-cuts in the other, as shown at a a. The upper edges of 'the sidesare shouldered, as at b, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned.

An opening, B, is made in the front of the package, and a sheet ofglass, 13, is inserted therein in any suitable manner.

0 is a covering for the front of the package, and is readily removable.It ought, however, to be firmly enough applied to prevent it from beingaccidentally removed.

The glass B should be set deeply enough into the opening B to permit thecover 0 to be in contact with the frame of the panel without theliability of injuring the glass.

Ordinarily, short nails or brads will servefor the purpose of fasteningthe cover 0 to the package.

It is also to be understood that the cover 0 corresponds to the face ofthe package in form.

D is abail, andE is a lid, hinged at its rear edge to the package insuch a manner as to allow the lid to rest upon the shoulders b b whenthe lid is closed, thus causing the lid to lie flush with the upperedges of the body of the package.

F is a spring-bolt, applied to the interior face of the lid E, and thepaneled side or front of the package is mortised to receive the end ofthe bolt, as shown at c.

The end of the bolt should be beveled, as

usual, to cause it to be pushed back when the lid is closed, it beingunderstood that the bolt will move automatically into the mortise cafter the lid is closed.

In order that the lid E may be unlocked, a small pin, d, projects fromthe bolt through a slot, cl, in the lid, the slot lying in the directionof the movement of the bolt.

To enable the bolt to be drawn and the lid to be raised with facility, asmall ring, 0, passes through an eye in the pin (1. The ring 0 lies in acircular or disk-shaped depression, 6', sunken into the upper face ofthe lid, as shown.

By this means the pin d and ring 0 are flush, I v

or nearly so, with the upper face of the lid; but the ring may be liftedfor the purpose of drawing the bolt and raising the lid, and the boltcannot be drawn without lifting the ring, the depression e forming astop or shoulder, which prevents a sliding movement of the ring.

the package and provided with a bolt, may be easily opened and closedfrom time to time,

and locked when closed, without injury to the package, and only thosefamiliar withthe construction and operation of the fastening would belikely to unlock the cover until after repeated attempts.

The cover, by lying flush within the upper edges of thebody of thepackage, and resting on the shoulders I) I), cannot be injured orknocked off, under ordinary circumstances, during transportation oratother times.

The ring 0, by lying in the depression 6, is not only thus protected,but also prevents the bolt from being drawn until the ring or lifter israised for that purpose.

In practice a seal or label will be spread over the lifting-ring, thusnot only concealing The form of the package is desirable, and

it from View, but preventing the package from The combination ofthe boxor body of the being opened by those familiar with the locapackage,having therein the mortise 0, the lid tion of the bolt without breakingthe seal. E, having therein the depression e, the spring- For thesereasons railroad employs and bolt F, and the ring 6, substantially asand others Will probably be deterred from attemptfor the purposesspecified.

:ing to meddle with the contents of the package. ALBERT ALFORD.

The package may be easily carried in the hand by means of the bale.Witnesses:

Having thus described my invention, What F. I. WARNER,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- J. H. OOYNE.

ters Patent, is-

